Of buses and things

Our kitchen window looks out on a roundabout at a four-road junction. We see cyclists and pedestrians, lots of cars and from time the blaring police cars or vans, as in the picture.
We are on a one-bus route - the 236, as seen in the next picture - an important link for Finsbury Park Station with its tube and mainline connections and buses to further north. But major roadworks have affected certain routes, and we now find ourselves on a 4-bus route, a diversion route for 3 bus routes, like the single-decker number 393. Blogger would not give me space for its picture, but it travels up the road past our window like this 236, at this point going in the exact opposite direction to its normal route, which it will pick a quarter of a mile away!
Here is the number 19, heading like the 236 for Finsbury Park which makes for a pleasant alternative to the 236, when waiting at our usual bus stop.
This number 4 passes near Finsbury Park on it way north to Archway where the Goinggwadw family reside which is also extremely convenient, though regretfully they will have gone to Gwada before these diversions have ended.
The sight of these double-decker buses passing the kitchen window - I still haven't got used to them - makes me thing how surprising it must have been for people living in houses near to the Manchester Ship Canal suddenly seeing these great ocean-going ships pass by after it was built.
(But not as surprising as it would have been if they had passed before it was built.)